Beverley Lyons

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[1] [2] [3] Beverley Lyons is an award winning Scottish entertainment journalist, vlogger and broadcaster.

She heads up lifestyle and entertainment website theshowbizlion.com and was digital Showbiz editor at The Daily Record.

She attended a Glasgow University and created Clubber Of The Week in the Glasgow Evening Times and wrote a daily showbiz and lifestyle column there. She was one of the editors for the Scottish Daily Record Razz column covering entertainment until leaving in 2016. She subsequently set up her own media and digital PR company, TheShowbizLion.com to write daily for the national titles.

Lyons is a BBC Scotland, Talk TV and STV contributor and was guest presenter on the axed STV 2’s Live At Five. She occasionally presented the MusicMatch for BBC Radio Scotland, and was a team captain for BBC Scotland radio show "Famous For Five Minutes", with comedians Craig Hill and Frankie Boyle. She now talks about showbiz across the BBC Radio and TV network and is a regular showbiz pundit on TalkTV and STV’s Scotland Tonight. She also hosts events including Glasgow’s Pride and the Scottish Bar and Pub awards.

She holds a LAMDA certificate and once voiced an ad for The Scottish Chill Out Album, Julienne Taylor's album Music Garden and Irn Bru carnival. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the 2009 Scottish Press Awards for "Entertainment Journalist" and "Multimedia Journalist" of The Year; she was runner-up in the latter category. Nominated again for Scottish Press "Multimedia Journalist" in 2010, she was its "New Media Journalist Of The Year" in 2011. [4] Trinity Mirror gave an inhouse award to her as Trinity Mirror’s Digital Journalist of the Year that year.

Born on February 27 1979, Lyons is the daughter of late radio producer Ben Lyons and late promoter Louise Rosenthal. Her sister Yvette is a producer-director.

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